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KAMIŃSKA-SOBCZAK, Aleksandra, TRAFALSKA, Elżbieta & GASZYŃSKA, Ewelina. The Prevalence of feeding disorders in healthy infants and children under 3 years of age based on a questionnaire study.Journal of Education, Health and Sport. 2023;27(1):38-52. eISSN 2391-8306. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.12775/JEHS.2023.27.01.004 https://apcz.umk.pl/JEHS/article/view/43411 https://zenodo.org/record/7904622 The journal has had 40 points in Ministry of Education and Science of Poland parametric evaluation. Annex to the announcement of the Minister of Education and Science of December 21, 2021. No. 32343. Has a Journal's Unique Identifier: 201159. Scientific disciplines assigned: Physical Culture Sciences (Field of Medical sciences and health sciences); Health Sciences (Field of Medical Sciences and Health Sciences). Punkty Ministerialne z 2019 - aktualny rok 40 punktów. Załącznik do komunikatu Ministra Edukacji i Nauki z dnia 21 grudnia 2021 r. Lp. 32343. Posiada Unikatowy Identyfikator Czasopisma: 201159. Przypisane dyscypliny naukowe: Nauki o kulturze fizycznej (Dziedzina nauk medycznych i nauk o zdrowiu); Nauki o zdrowiu (Dziedzina nauk medycznych i nauk o zdrowiu). © The Authors 2023; This article is published with open access at Licensee Open Journal Systems of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author (s) and source are credited. This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non commercial license Share alike. (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited. The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper. Received: 04.04.2023. Revised: 20.04.2023. Accepted: 07.05.2023. Published: 07.05.2023. The Prevalence of feeding disorders in healthy infants and children under 3 years of age based on a questionnaire study Aleksandra Kamińska-Sobczak, Department of Nutrition and Epidemiology, Medical University of Łódź, 90-752 Łódź, Żeligowskiego 7/9, aleksandra.kaminska@stud.umed.lodz.pl, nr orcid0000-0002-7642-4948. Elżbieta Trafalska PhD, Department of Nutrition and Epidemiology, Medical University of Łódź, 90-752 Łódź, Żeligowskiego 7/9, elzbieta.trafalska@umed.lodz.pl, nr orcid 0000-0002-1937-0090. Ewelina Gaszyńska PhD, DDS, associate prof, Head of Department of Nutrition and Epidemiology, Medical University of Łódź, 90-752 Łódź, Żeligowskiego 7/9, ewelina.gaszynska@umed.lodz.pl, nr orcid 0000-0001-7568-3502. Abstract Introduction and purpose Depending on the source, feeding disorders are common reasons to visit a pediatritian - reported in 2-60% of generally healthy children. This study was designed in order to assess the incidence of feeding difficulties in the group of healthy children aged 6-36 months from the Łódź region and to identify factors that may be related to feeding disorders. Material and method The research tool of this study was a questionnaire designed by authors which consisted of: 4 personal data questions, 9 questions about the perinatal and neonatal period, 36 feeding questions, 10 questions about child development and weigh gain, 10 questions about previous medical history, 30 questions about symptoms, 8 questions about misbehaviour during feeding and 14 sociodemographic questions. Results 215 parents completed questionnaires. However 10 of them were rejected because those participants met exclusion criteria. Finally 205 children were enrolled to the study. The difficulties in feeding were confirmed by parents of 66 participants. Children with feeding difficulties were more often attended to specialist ambulatories, had diagnosed food allergies, underwent speech therapy and rehabilitation. Additionally, analysis showed that feeding disorders in mother and the occurrence of stressful situations in the family were more frequent in children whose parents reported feeding difficulties. Conclusions The incidence of feeding difficulties, in the group of healthy children aged 6-36 months from the Łódź region, was higher than reported in other studies. Therefore there is an urgent need to educate parents on feeding recommendation to modify eating behaviours and overcome feeding disorders, followed by some practical advices on appropriate diet adjustment. Keywords: avoidant restrictive food intake disorder;eating behaviour; feeding difficulties; malnutrition; nutritional insufficiency; selective eating